168 LEBADEA. 
to doubt the fidelity of the historian, who, 
speaking of Lebadka, says, that its decorations 
were not inferior to those of the most flourishing 
Denuded citics of C; ecce '. Yet it is now so completely 
stale of ilie i r ii • • i 
anticnt Stripped of all its costly ornaments, that, with 
city. . p , . . . . 
the exception ot the interesting remains at the 
sources of the river, our search after antiquities 
was almost made in vain. We could not obtain 
a single medal ; and the few that we saw, upon 
the head-dresses of the women and children, 
were wretched ecclesiastical coins, or the still 
more barbarous impressions of the Turkish mint. 
Acropoiir* We asccudcd to the Citadel, erected upon the 
summit of the rock above the Hieron of Tropho- 
nius ; and found there the cnpilal of a large 
pillar, of that most antient and rare variety of 
the Corinihicm order, described in our account 
of Thebes. It consisted of the hard black mar- 
ble of the rocks upon which the citadel stands. 
Within the fortress we noticed a fev/ fragments 
of antiquity, less worthy of notice than this 
capital; and in a Mosque near it, there are some 
inscriptions; but only one of them is entire, 
and this has been ah-eady published by JVheler : 
it is upon a binck of marble over the door of the 
%uiat(x.Kn. I'ausan. Baeot. c. 59, p. 78 9. ed. Kuhnii. 
